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The women of the Famous Five included Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby. These five women represent iconic powerful movements and change within Canada, as they devoted their lives to advocacy in the 1880s, through to the 1890s. [3]
Laura Borden (1861–1940) – wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada Henrietta Muir Edwards (1849–1931) – women's rights activist and reformer Helena Gutteridge (1879–1960) – first woman elected to city council in Vancouver
As a member of the Famous Five, she was one of five women who took the Persons Case first to the Supreme Court of Canada, and then to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, for the right of women to serve in the Senate of Canada. McClung was the first woman appointed to the board of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1936.
Edwards v Canada (AG), also known as the Persons Case (French: l'Affaire « personne »), is a Canadian constitutional case that decided in 1929 that women were eligible to sit in the Senate of Canada.
Emily Murphy (born Emily Gowan Ferguson; 14 March 1868 – 26 October 1933) [1] was a Canadian women's rights activist and author.In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada and the fifth in the British Empire after Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, Jane Price, E. Cullen and Cecilia Dixon of Australia (all appointed to office in 1915).
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The Senate of Canada posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Senator during the 40th Parliament to five pioneering women known as The Famous Five. [7] The motion was introduced to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the landmark court challenge that allowed women to hold seats in the Senate of Canada. [7]
Anna May Wong a.k.a. Wong Liu Tsong. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, both in Hollywood and internationally, and the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood ...
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